Improvement in whip-sockets



wrLuAM R. ALLEN.

improvement in Whip-Sockets.

Patented inne 6,1871.

Ormea.

WILLIAM- R. ALLEN, OF STOGKTON, NEW JERSEY.

IMPRVEMENT IN WHIP-SOCKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 115,556, dated June 6,1ST

To uil whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. ALLEN, of Stockton, in the county ofHunterdon and State of N ew Jersey,;have invented a certain new anduseful Improvement in Whip-Sockets; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of the same, and inwhich- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improvedwhip-socket, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal central section thereof.

Like parts in the two iigures are designated by like letters.

This invention relates to an improved whipsocket; and consists of abarrel or hollow cylindrical casing, supplied on its inner circumferencewith a flange or semicircular projection and on its outer circumferencewith a conically-shaped receptacle or case,'within the lower or enlargedextremity of which is secured, by bolts or screws, an ordinary lock, thebolt of which comes in direct contact with the whip-handle when thrownout of the lock, which bolt, with the semicircular ange of thecylindrical casing, locks the whip within said casing, substantially ashereinafter set forth and claimed.

To enable those skilled in the art to which.

my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will proceed todescribe its construction and operation.

In the annexed drawing, A designates a cylindrical casing or barrel,which is supplied with suitable means or clips a a, for attaching it tothe vehicle. Within the upper end' or mouth of the casing Av is secured,in any known way, a rubber ring, al, to prevent the handle of the whip,inserted in said casing or be seen that in attempting to draw the whipfrom the socket its head will be obstructed on one side of said flangewhen the bolt of the lock is thrown out. B designates a conicallyshapedcasing, which is attached to the outer circumference of the socket A, asshown particularly in Fig. 1, by any suitable means, the object of soconstructing the said casing being to prevent water, produced by rainand snow, from entering the same and the lock placed therein, therebypreserving the lock from rust; as it will be seen that by means of theinclined surface of the said case the water, as soon as it touches it,will be carried oft' therefrom. To the lower or enlarged extremity ofthe casing B is attached, by means of solder or otherwise, a receptacleor case the inclined sides of which form a continuation of the formercasing, and within which receptacle is secured, by means of screws orbolts, an ordinary lock, C, the forward end of which is made to enter anopening in the casing or socket A; and the bolts thereof, it will beobserved by reference to Fig. 2, when thrown out by its key c, broughtin contact or in close proximity with the handle of the whip D, by meansof which and they 'ange a? of the casing or socket A the said whip willbe so secured in said socket as to be prevented from being withdrawntherefrom unless the bolt of the lock be thrown in or relieved fromcontact with the whip-handle, which can only be done by the one carryingthe key.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

The whip-socket, supplied with the conically-shaped case having a lockand the semicircular flange or projection, substantially as herein shownand described, and for the pur pose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have hereuntosigned my name this 22d day of February, A. D. 1871, in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM R. ALLEN.

' Witnesses:

GABRn'iL WoLvEnToN, A. J. RANsAvELL.

